This lovely Vaporeon wasn't bade by me; the lineart was originally done by lord-of-the-pirates , who allowed people to color it in. Here it is without any color:[link]

I used this as an opprotunity to get a bit more familiar with my Photoshoppin' skiilz, since I'll be using the program a lot in the near future for coloring in various art... stuffs. I find it a lot easier to use then traditional art, though my skills in both could always be fine tuned.

For example, I just used some random fill techniques for the background, nothing too strenuous. I also think the shading is a bit choppy on the end of the tail...

But otherwise, I like it! Vaporeon was one of my favorite Pokemon back-in-the-day, so hopefully my colors were good enough to accompany such beautiful linework of the creature.